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1C5

10-23-2005, 11:03 PM

Early so no reads. How do you play this?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx (http://www.zerodivide.cx/converter)

UTG+1 (t825)
Hero (t800)
MP1 (t640)
MP2 (t990)
MP3 (t740)
CO (t800)
Button (t925)
SB (t755)
BB (t800)
UTG (t725)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls t15, 1 fold, Hero raises to t50, 7 folds, UTG calls t35.

Flop: (t122.50) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets t75, UTG raises to t275, Hero does what?

kyro

10-23-2005, 11:13 PM

I make like your title and go broke early. (Or double up)

10-23-2005, 11:15 PM

Folding this would never cross my mind. Is that a leak?

Karak567

10-23-2005, 11:19 PM

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I make like your title and go broke early. (Or double up)

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10-23-2005, 11:20 PM

Hero pushes and laughs when villain turns over KJ....then gets pissed when a jack turns, and happy when a T rivers to give him a straight.

At this level, I put the villian on the range K9+/Ad4d/JdTd. I think the chips you gain by pushing and having him fold/calling with you winning outweighs the time you get stacked by KQ/44, so I would PUSH.

Blarg

10-24-2005, 01:27 AM

I expect a flush or even a straight draw here an awful lot of the time. And I've seen much worse. I push and sweat out whether he makes his draw or whether I can outdraw to beat his queen-four offsuit two pair.

Scuba Chuck

10-24-2005, 01:29 AM

sometimes you lose these....

splashpot

10-24-2005, 01:30 AM

I like to raise more than 50 preflop. Especially with AK. And of course I'd call his all in.

Bonafone

10-24-2005, 01:57 AM

Raise more preflop (I would go to 75), then double up here on the flop.

10-24-2005, 02:04 AM

I still push this, but I've noticed that I'm not the only one who plays small PPs very passively preflop in the early levels. His range definitely is much wider than just a set or KQ here though, he also could have KJ, KT, 78d, TJ, etc, and many of his holdings that are way behind call a push.

tigerite

10-24-2005, 05:02 AM

Calls or pushes, it doesn't really matter, just get your money in.

PS I could maybe fold this at a $55 with larger starting stacks, but not at an $11-$33.

curtains

10-24-2005, 06:07 AM

Of course I move allin to the check raise. I also raise to 65 preflop so it's a smooth 50 for them to call, instead of a cheap 35.